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These Pennsylvania Birds Will Be Renamed as Watchers Reckon With Racism, Inclusion
The Pet Zealot ^ | November 24, 2023 | James Alain L.

Posted on 11/24/2023 1:57:40 PM PST by allen592

In a significant move towards fostering inclusivity and distancing avian species from problematic historical figures, the American Ornithological Society (AOS) has announced its intention to rename several North American birds. This initiative, set to impact numerous avian species in Pennsylvania, aims to dissociate these magnificent creatures from namesakes associated with racism.

The AOS's decision to rename certain birds stems from the realization that several species, such as the Townsend's warbler and solitaire, bear names that honor individuals with racist backgrounds. Peter Saenger, an ornithologist from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, has highlighted that this project could potentially affect over a dozen birds that breed, migrate to, or visit Pennsylvania.

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TOPICS: Local News; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: allentown; animals; aos; birds; blackracistsmatter; culturalterrorism; fosteringstupidity; muhlenbergcollege; paping; pennsylvania; racism
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To: Fiji Hill

Have you not heard? It was my understanding that everyone had heard....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WNrx2jq184


41 posted on 11/24/2023 3:16:07 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: lightman

Happy T-Day Ping.


42 posted on 11/24/2023 3:16:09 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: allen592

Muhlenberg College in Allentown. Ugh. I used to work parties and dances for them. They are generally an insufferable group of emotionally-stunted drunks. Breaking up fights over Facebook posts and other stupidity. Even attendees at ghetto class parties behave much better.


43 posted on 11/24/2023 3:22:09 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: allen592

What about Woodpeckers, isn’t that term offensive ? [\S]


44 posted on 11/24/2023 3:23:47 PM PST by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum )
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To: HIDEK6

I’d love to see some species of bird named after Pinochet, but that’ll probably never happen.


45 posted on 11/24/2023 3:25:37 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Steely Tom

Sounds as if they’ve outlived whatever usefulness they may have had.


46 posted on 11/24/2023 3:36:28 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: Salman

Fahrenheit 451 and 1984 here we come.


47 posted on 11/24/2023 3:39:54 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: allen592

He’s a nobody teaching a useless subject no one cares about at a nothing “university”.


48 posted on 11/24/2023 3:42:42 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: fatima; Fresh Wind; st.eqed; xsmommy; House Atreides; Nowhere Man; PaulZe; brityank; Physicist; ...

Pennsylvania Ping!

Please ping me with articles of interest.

FReepmail me to be added to the list.

49 posted on 11/24/2023 3:43:28 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Alas Babylon!

🐂💩


50 posted on 11/24/2023 3:56:57 PM PST by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: allen592

Here is this dipsh*t’s email. Tell him what you think of his galactically stupid idea

petersaenger@muhlenberg.edu


51 posted on 11/24/2023 3:58:54 PM PST by SCConservative58
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To: allen592

You mean the Nathan Bedford Forrest Cross-burning Songbird might be racist?


52 posted on 11/24/2023 3:59:04 PM PST by MuttTheHoople ( "Never thot I'd live to see the day when the right wing would become the cool ones"-Johnny Rotten)
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To: MuttTheHoople
"Now that's funny, I don't care who you are, that's funny right there! If you can't laugh at that you need to leave, 'cuz that's funny right there!"
53 posted on 11/24/2023 4:00:53 PM PST by SCConservative58
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To: allen592

Any bird that a white person named is racist and should be exterminated!

(using absurdity to point out liberal absurdity)

54 posted on 11/24/2023 4:01:24 PM PST by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: allen592

I was talking to a couple of staff members at Cornell’s Ornithology Lab earlier this year. One told me there is not unanimity in these recommendations at the Lab. But the word was informally communicated that open dissent would not bode well for careers.


55 posted on 11/24/2023 4:02:02 PM PST by Fury
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To: Fiji Hill
What's the word? Thunderbird! What's the price? Thirty twice!

Don't forget the third line of that radio ad:

What's the action? Satisfaction!

And a fourth line was added by ironical radio listeners in the section of Virginia I was visiting. Let's just say it quite accurately and gently identified the main consumers of Thunderbird wine.

56 posted on 11/24/2023 4:06:44 PM PST by SamuraiScot
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To: allen592

I fear there is no cure for the stupid virus.


57 posted on 11/24/2023 4:07:05 PM PST by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: allen592
"Baltimore oriole"

Another team has to change their name.

The answer to this is just say no but cowards afraid of being called names acquiesce to the mob.

58 posted on 11/24/2023 4:10:14 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: Fiji Hill
The Baltimore Oriole is on the list, so the baseball team will have to be renamed.

And the city.

59 posted on 11/24/2023 4:42:18 PM PST by NautiNurse (🇺🇸)
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To: allen592
Oh good grief! Townsend's Warbler is named after early ornithologist John Kirk Townsend.

His family were anti-slavery activists, so no problem there.

Nope. His great sin was that while he was collecting a boatload of newly-discovered birds & mammals on an 1830s expedition to the Northwest, he robbed a skull from a grave of a Chinook Indian to give to a friend of his back East who collected & analyzed skulls of different races.

And that's it!!!

60 posted on 11/24/2023 4:45:04 PM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC (Unity? Of course! I pledge to respect your President as much as you respected mine the past 4 years.)
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